Bug#837880: vim: Unable to globally disable mouse

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Thu Sep 15 10:58:54 UTC 2016


Control: reassign vim-common 2:8.0.0003-1
Control: merge 837793 837880

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 07:40:01AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> It apparently is impossible to globally disable the mouse.
> 
> This
> 
> # echo set mouse=\"\" >> /etc/vim/vimrc

NB, the quotes aren't necessary.  "set mouse=" is how to unset the
'mouse' option.  " is Vim's comment character.

Also, it's better to put your system config in /etc/vim/vimrc.local
(which is sourced by /etc/vim/vimrc) so you don't run into conffile
prompts if I change /etc/vim/vimrc.

> has no effect whatsoever, if the users don't have their own local 
> ~/.vimrc, which is not what I would expect from a system wide
> configuration file.

Yeah, this is the same root cause as what's reported in #837793.  I'm
still trying to think how best to solve that.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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